MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
online education have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are many
issues that
e-learning institutions
are having to attend to
more than ever because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can we
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
American College of Education to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desideratum
to be aware of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
need for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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